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persons as have not been entered in the Parish book, or received 

 relief of any kind from the Parish for one twelvemonth previous to 

 their making such application." From that time to this, ears that 

 never heard the two sisters have blessed them, and eyes that never 

 saw them have given witness to them. 



Court Leets. 



We have seen that the lords of our two manors used to hold 

 separate courts here, the spiritual lord at Monkton, the temporal 

 at Broughton. We have also learnt how the former was lost by 

 disuse and paucity of tenants, and so became merged in its larger 

 and more active neighbour. Of the Monkton Court there remain, 

 as far as I know, no records. The rolls of the Broughton 

 court leet and court Baron date from 1544, Robert May and 

 Sir John Talbot being the lords. This was the date also of Robert 

 May's purchase from Sir Richard Bruges, and in fact the existing 

 records relate solely to that half of the manor which was Catharine 

 Gifford's. Many of the earlier rolls are wanting. There is a lapse 

 of six years after 1554. Then another of eight years. But from 

 that time to the present, there are no more such serious gaps. 



I will give such extracts from the court rolls as may seem to 

 have any local interest, and do not range themselves under any 

 other head. 



1558. John Bonham, Esq. was a freeholder. Was this Leland's 

 host at Haselbury ? Leland says, in his itinerary, that the " Bone- 

 homes afore that tyme [before Haselbury manor house was built 

 by Mr. Bonehome's father] dwellied by Lacock upon Avon." 

 1560. Michael Quintyn, Esq. freeholder. And afterwards there is 

 frequent mention of Quintin's lands. In the pedigree of Long by 

 Charles Edward Long, Esq. it is said, that Michael Quinton held 

 Monkton under Sir Henry Longe. This I doubt. The Longs 

 had no part in Monkton, till a much later date. 



1571. "The tythingman reports that John Aust and Nicholas 

 Gregory are common brawlers, and have sold beer in measures not 

 sealed (mensuris insigillatis), for which they are fined iv' 1 ." "Also 

 that Robert Timyse made an assault on William Peirce with a stick 



